Briqueting-press.



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215 designates ecipocmi c-diupiizig means in the form of phm-ger having heads 24 itted in the molding-chmnhefs B5 v5 he Building-boxes and having stems 25 .f fx'ending outward through holes .27 in Lhf ends 'uf the melding-boxes.

28 designates pins which keep fthe piuigmrs imm dropping out of the Chamber of the moidinU-huxes when ejemnr hhs aided upon stems and displaced the bique', as indicned in h@ sectioned pmtimis in Figs, l and L.

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.as g izda, :adapted h; drum apela erheen l a series of disconnected contacting molds vp unger in said box, means for engaging the plunger and forcing it inward and at t 1e same time onward, to move the box along its orbit, and means for simultaneously engaging the box to hold it against the drum.

7. A drum, a moldingbox, means for guid-V ing the moldingbox with its open mouth against the drum, a plunger in the box, rotary means for engaging the plunger to move it inward and onward, and resilient means for cngagimr the box to hold it against the drum.

8. A n rum, a molding-box, means for guiding the molding-box with its open mouth against the drum, a plunger in' said box, 'a gear having a face to engage said plunger and move it inward and onward, and tensionbolts carried by said gear to engage said box and hold it against the drum.

9. A molding-box, means for closing the mouth of the box, means for guiding the box in a path, a plunger in the box, rotary means for engaging the plunger to force it inward as the box moves onward in its path, and means on said rotary means for engaging the box at the same time that/the rotary means engages the plunger.

10. A frame, "Iiolding means, means `for guiding said molding means 1n a atljpsaid trame, and rotar means yielding y mounted on the frame an( arranged to simultaneously advance and operate sald molding means.

11. In a press, a frame, a series of disconnected molds arranged to move in a detervmined path in said frame, a rock-bar mounted on said frame, rotary compressing means mounted on sald rock-bar and constructed to operate said molds, and tension means for holding toward the molds said rotary compressing means,

12. In a press, a frame, molding means ar ranged to move in a determined path in said frame, a rock-bar mounted on said frame, rotar compressing means mounted on said roc rbar and constructed to operate said molding means, and tension means Jfor holding toward the molding means said rotary compressing means, the center of gravity of the 1'ocl-bar and its attachments being rearward of the vertical drawn from the shaft of the rock-bar to cause gravity of the compressing means to hold the tension means normally at a constant tension.

13. A briqueting-press provided With a series of disconnected molds, rotary means for operating said molds, rocking means carrying said rotary means, link means for connecting the rocking means with the frame of the press, and yielding tension means. for holding said rotary .neans toward the molds.

14. A frame, molding means moving in an orbit therein, a molding-drum closing the mouths of the molding means at aportion of said orbit, rocking means, a shaft journaled therein, balance-wheels fixed on the shaft, a compressinggear fixed on the shaft and constructed to operate and advance the molding means successively.

15. Disconnected molding-boxes moving in an orbit, plungers in said boxes respectively having projecting stems, and a rotary ejector-gear arranged to engage said-stems to Vdfvffress the same.

HOWARD E. MARSH.

In presence of Jamas R. TowNsnNn, W. P. WAGY. 

